Alibaba has teased its Qwen3.8 model, calling it the most powerful in its Qwen line and claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic’s Claude Fable5. It previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, describing a multimodal model with 2.4 trillion parameters. Alibaba released no benchmark scores, model card or activation-parameter details, and the model has not been independently verified. The preview is available via subscription and developer platforms at discounted trial pricing.

KT is making its management direction clearer more than 100 days after Park Yoon-young took office as chief executive, putting an “AX platform company” focused on supporting corporate customers’ AI transformation at the center. KT has announced investment plans for information security, IT innovation, next-generation networks, AI data centres and subsea cables, and is pitching a “token factory” business. It is also positioning its in-house AI model for enterprise use and widening cooperation with global and domestic AI firms.